World Indoor Bowls Championships
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 World Indoor Bowls Championship
SportBowls
Founded1979
ContinentInternational (Professional Bowls Association / World Bowls Tour)
Most recent
champion(s)
2023 Open Singles
England Jamie Walker
2023 Women's Singles
England Katherine Rednall
2023 Open Pairs
England Nick Brett &
England Greg Harlow
2023 Mixed Pairs
Scotland Stewart Anderson &
Wales Ceri Ann Glen
TV partner(s)BBC Two, YouTube

The World Indoor Bowls Championship is an international bowls competition held annual at Potters holiday park in Hopton on Sea.

The last week of the competition is televised live on BBC where the open singles and open pairs', women's singles and mixed pairs' finals are shown.[1]

History

The competition was first held in 1979 in Coatbridge, Scotland as a men's singles only event. The first event was sponsored by Embassy Cigarettes.

In 1986, the men's pairs competition was added to the championship.[2] In 1988, a rule change allowed women to compete for the first time and the women's singles competition was created. This rule change also changed expanded the men's singles and pairs competition and both become open tournaments.

In 1989, the championships moved to the Guild Hall in Preston, England and Churchill Insurance took over the sponsorship. While the competition was being held in Preston, Midland Bank and SAGA were also sponsors at various times.

In 1999, Potters Holidays took over the sponsorship and, as part of the agreement, the event moved to its current home at the company's resort in Hopton-on-Sea. The mixed pairs competition was added to the championship in 2004.

World Indoor Men's/Open Singles Champions

Wins by individual (Open Singles only)

Name Titles Runners up Winning Years
Scotland Alex Marshall 6 1 1999, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2015
Scotland Paul Foster 5 2 1998, 2001, 2005, 2011, 2017
Scotland Richard Corsie 3 4 1989, 1991, 1993
England Andy Thomson 3 2 1994, 1995, 2012
England David Bryant 3 1 1979, 1980, 1981
England Tony Allcock 3 - 1986, 1987, 2002
Scotland Hugh Duff 2 1 1988, 1997
Scotland Stewart Anderson 2 1 2013, 2019
England Mark Dawes 2 - 2018, 2021
Wales John Price 1 3 1990
England Mervyn King 1 3 2006
Australia Ian Schuback 1 2 1992
England Greg Harlow 1 2 2010
England Robert Paxton 1 2 2020
Northern Ireland Jim Baker 1 1 1984
Scotland David Gourlay 1 1 1996
Wales Robert Weale 1 1 2000
England Nick Brett 1 1 2016
Scotland John Watson 1 - 1982
Scotland Bob Sutherland 1 - 1983
Wales Terry Sullivan 1 - 1985
England Billy Jackson 1 - 2009
Scotland Darren Burnett 1 - 2014
England Les Gillett 1 - 2022
England Jamie Walker 1 - 2023

Performance by country (Open singles only)

Country Titles Runners up Winning Players
Scotland Scotland 22 13 9
England England 18 16 11
Wales Wales 3 7 3
Australia Australia 1 3 1
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 1 2 1
Hong Kong Hong Kong - 1 -
Israel Israel - 1 -
New Zealand New Zealand - 1 -
Canada Canada - 1 -
Total 45 45 25

World Indoor Women's Singles Champions

World Indoor Men's/Open Pairs Champions

The Men's Pairs (now Open Pairs) allows women to compete, this is not to be confused with the Mixed Pairs. It was a men's only competition until 2012.

World Indoor Mixed Pairs Champions

World Indoor Open Under 25 Champions

Players with 5 or more titles

Name Nation Open singles Women's singles Open Pairs Mixed Pairs Total
Alex Marshall Scotland 6N/A6214
Paul Foster Scotland 5N/A5313
Tony Allcock England 3N/A8-11
David Bryant England 3N/A6-9
David Gourlay Scotland /  Australia 1N/A337
Andy Thomson England 3N/A3-6
Carol Ashby England -3-36
Nick Brett England 1N/A326
Katherine Rednall England -5-16
Stewart Anderson Scotland 2N/A226
Richard Corsie Scotland 3N/A2-5
Greg Harlow England 1N/A315

See also

References

  1. "World Indoor Bowls Championships 2018: Schedule and BBC coverage". BBC Sport.
  2. Newby, Donald (1989). Bowls Year Book 89. the Daily Telegraph. ISBN 0-330-31093-3.
  3. "Wales' Laura Daniels wins World Indoor Bowls final". BBC. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. "Dawes And Chestney Win Second Open Pairs Title". Bowls International. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. "Julie Forrest: Borders bowler wins world championships title". Peebleshire News. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
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